Angela Gulisane and Todd Manwaring, Department of Sociology Throughout the process of this project, it has made many changes and developed into something more than it was originally. Even after the submission of the ORCA Grant proposal it changed. The positive and influential outcome, however, was not changed though. The Project Our project found a […]
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BYU Stamp Scavenger Hunt
Elsmore, Mandy BYU Stamp Scavenger Hunt Faculty Mentor: Gary Barton, 2D Studio Art The goal of this project was to provide an informative and unifying activity for BYU students through an art installation and exhibition. It was inspired by Japanese Eki (Train) Station stamps, which promotes tourism throughout all of Japan, to popular and unknown […]
New Forms of Digital Journalism and BYU’s Anti Poverty Efforts
Victoria Estrada and Ed Carter, School of Communications The world of journalism is ever changing as technology continues to advance and the world evolves. As an aspiring journalist, it is important to know what is relevant. Journalists are employed by the people, we have a duty to tell society what they should know while also […]
Dangers to Musician Hearing at BYU
Smith, Kieren Dangers to Musician Hearing at BYU Faculty Mentors: Jeremy Grimshaw, College of Fine Arts and Communications Tracianne Neilsen, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences At any stage in a musical career, musicians experience large quantities of high-level sound. Noise-induced hearing loss penetrates many musicians’ lives and is cumulative over a lifetime. Some performing […]
BYU undergraduates execute a familial study of non-demented individuals in high-risk Alzheimer’s disease pedigrees
John S.K. Kauwe Award Date: Jan 1st, 2013 Project Justification and Overview Successful enrollment in and completion of graduate programs requires a constellation of skills. Students must be prepared to plan and execute experiments, present their findings both verbally and in manuscript form and interact effectively with senior scientists in the field of their choice. […]
BYU Undergraduates explore the flipped classroom in search of the best pedagogy for introductory biology
Jamie Jensen, Department of Biology, MEG Final Report This report will outline how effectively we met our academic and mentoring objectives.I have listed below both the academic and mentoring objectives put forth in the original proposal and have outlined how they were met or modified over the course of the past two years. Academic Objective: […]
Vitamin D Levels and Performance in Athletes at BYU, A Descriptive Study
Kaitlin Jackman and James Kohl, College of Nursing
The BYU Ad‐Deir Monument and Plateau Project
Josie Newbold and Dr. Cynthia Finlayson, Department of Anthropology Introduction Petra, Jordan is famous for being the city carved out of red sandstone cliffs. The builders of Petra were the Nabataeans, a people believed to be nomadic at one point in time, who settled in a desert and created a vast empire. They were renowned […]
BYU COMPUTATIONAL NUMBER THEORY RESEARCH GROUP DAVID CARDON, DARRIN DOUD, PAUL JENKINS, AND PACE NIELSEN
Pace Nielsen, Mathematics Evaluation of Academic Objectives In the years 2013-2014 we held a weekly seminar in which every supported student gave presentations at least once (but usually twice or more) per semester. This gave the students opportunities to learn and develop presentations skills, which will help them later in their careers. It also gave […]
BYU undergraduates execute a familial study of non-demented individuals in high-risk Alzheimer’s disease pedigrees
John S.k. Kauwe, Biology Project Justification and Overview Successful enrollment in and completion of graduate programs requires a constellation of skills. Students must be prepared to plan and execute experiments, present their findings both verbally and in manuscript form and interact effectively with senior scientists in the field of their choice. In this MEG I […]